Incorporate appropriate historical perspectives into current professional nursing practice
Week 8: AACN BSN Essential VIII and Your Future Practice
PURPOSE
This week’s graded discussion topic relates to the following Course Outcomes (COs).
CO1 Incorporate appropriate historical perspectives into current professional nursing practice (PO 2).
CO2 Use lessons from nursing history to integrate clinical judgment into professional nursing practice (PO 4).
DISCUSSION
AACN BSN Essential VIII clearly calls for BSN graduates to appreciate nursing history and its impact on today’s professional nursing practice. As you consider your future professional nursing practice, tell us
how you will share stories and lessons from nursing history with your nursing colleagues; and
how lessons from nursing history will impact your own future nursing practice.
Week 8: Reading
Website (required)
American Association of Colleges of Nursing. (2008). The essentials of baccalaureate education for professional nursing practice. Retrieved from http://www.aacnnursing.org/Education-Resources/AACN-Essentials (Links to an external site.)
Note: Click on the link above, then click on Baccalaureate Essentials, then Download the Free PDF Version.
Read Essential VIII (pp. 26–29)
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